The meaning of the Second Amendment (One Perspective)

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Second Amendment Discussion and Findings

First lets talk US constitution: The Second Amendment (Amendment II): A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
First lets define the words and their meaning in that Amendment. It is important to note that this amendment has 4 small but well defined parts. To do so I will be using English dictionary definition. Lets look at them one after the other.
1) "A well regulated Militia": A controlled according to law Civilians trained as soldier force.
"Well regulated": this is easy to understand: Controlled or governed according to rule, or principle or law
Militia:
First definition: Civilians trained as soldier but not part of the official army
Second definition (this one is actually defined by US Constitution) (Congress shall have power to provide for calling forth the militia): The entire body of physically fit civilians eligible by law for military service. This is super important because it frames the scope of it, if congress can call on it, it is not made to go against it but for it, catch my drift, so it is made for counter exterior forces and not intern ones
2) "being necessary to the security of a free State": this is easy to understand so no need to explain its vocabulary, we will discuss its meaning in the next part of my posting.
3) " the right of the people to keep and bear Arms": this is also very simple to understand, it simply mean that people have the right to get, and keep weapons.
Bear: have
4) "shall not be infringed": so it means that the second amendment can not be transgressed and/or invalidated
infringed: v.tr.
1. To transgress or exceed the limits of; violate: infringe a contract; infringe a patent.
2. Obsolete To defeat; invalidate.
Now that we have defined the vocabulary of the second amendment using an English dictionary, lets put it togather and try to understand the meaning behind the words. First lets string togather the English dictionary meaning of it:
" A controlled according to law Civilians trained as soldier but not part of the official army, being necessary to the security of a free State, people have the right to aquire and keep weapons, can not be invalidated".
Firt thing first is to understand scope. It's is very important, but most of people forget that, and that is why their reasoning is usually wrong.
Scope: the USA at the time the constitution was written was a British colony than decided to become a sovereign state and not a British colony. So they wanted to make sure it did not happen again. This is explained here clearly: defined by US Constitution, Congress shall have power to provide for calling forth the militia. The entire body of physically fit civilians eligible by law for military service. This is super important because it frames the scope of it, if congress can call on it, it is not made to go against it but for it, catch my drift, so it is made to counter exterior forces and not internal ones

It is important to note that amendment 2 is an amendment and not an article. This is very important because it demonstrate that this is a revision, so other revision could be done if necessary depending on scope of time.
Amendment: A statement that is added to or revises or improves a proposal and/or documents.